Hello! I have been a doctor for 21 years. My name is Georgy Olegovich Sapego. Several readers asked me, and now an article from the neighbors has appeared about salt treatment. It's all nonsense, but people like it. Therefore, I will explain in a popular way so that they do not bother themselves with this.
As usual, I will quote and immediately explain what the lie is.
They write that with cervical osteochondrosis, you need to make a compress on the neck from a steep salt solution and lie on your stomach with it for one and a half to two hours.
In fact, lying on your stomach is harmful for neck pain. From this, the pain intensifies, and regardless of the treatment. Well, local action on the muscle with anything sometimes helps with pain. Only, probably not in this case.
The beneficial effect on the neck is due to the fact that salt draws out harmful substances that are formed during inflammation.
Salt does draw out pus and germs, but only if you gargle with it in your throat or mouth. Salt will not act through intact skin, but on a wound - this will be called
"Don't rub salt on my wound!". Have you presented?Salt head bandage after a stroke ...
Well, this is some kind of black magic. It is unlikely that salt will act on the brain through the bones of the skull.
A doctor I know once treated a patient for a headache, but it turned out that the patient had scalp phlegmon. At some point, the pus broke through, and the person felt better. Now that doctor really feels the head for all patients with pain in the head. Maybe a compress there would help ...
Treat prostatitis with a saline compress on the groin area.
This will pull the skin out of your groin. But it won't reach the prostate. I have already been asked if it will be possible to do poultices on the perineum.
No. Poultices and saline compresses will not help with prostatitis. Neither groin nor crotch. The prostate is approached through the rectum or urethra. This case should be treated by a urologist.
Grandfathers sometimes bring themselves to a urinary tract infection with adenoma, and then go to the hospital with blood poisoning. Everything is warming something ...
Paraproctitis (abscesses next to the rectum) is also sometimes heated to themselves with compresses. Do not heat anything in this place! Go to the doctor!
Salt helps with hair loss and hair regrowth.
If they grew back, the tourists from the Dead Sea would come hairy. But they don't come.
Salt is said to help with leukemia.
White blood is leukemia, that is, blood cancer. This is oncology, and patients die quickly. Such recommendations should be punished. People have no conscience.
They also write that salt helps with cholecystitis or appendicitis.
It is just not clear how it should be used. On your stomach? Read my article on stomach fluid. There are so many dense membranes between the skin and internal organs that only a bullet or a surgeon's scalpel can get there. Lotions won't help.
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